Now 22, he has appeared on How’d You Get So Rich? and told Katherine Ryan he realised, while doing his A Levels, there was money to be made so he devoted his entire life to playing the game.

He said: “I had no life for a very long time.

“For about eight months I was playing 16 hours a day, seven days a week.

“I had better options in my social life, but it was because I realised poker could be such a massive opportunity and it could be life-changing and my way out of a nine-to-five, I took the gamble and it paid off.”

After switching from online to live poker games, Charlie’s gamble literally paid off – and he bagged £1 million in the European Poker Tour final.

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